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Tips for the summer and Dates

·      May 24^th – 2:00 Dismissal

·      May 27^th – No School

·      May 29^th – Kindergarten class picnic at Liberty Park

·      May 30^th – Last Day of School!!!  11:00 Dismissal!

* Please practice basic addition and subtraction.

* Work on writing numbers to 100 and practice skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

* Have your child read a book and retell the events in the book to you. 

*  Write a story using a beginning, middle, and end.

Reading

We have finished up our final book club books for the school year.  We worked on these new levels for 3 weeks and the students began to really understand their levels.  Comprehension is one of the keys to reading and we worked hard at understanding our books.  Keep reading this summer to maintain your child’s level.

Math

We have finished up our math for the year.  We worked very hard all year to understand a wide variety of concepts.  These past weeks we worked on money!  This can be a difficult unit but we worked very hard!  We learned the names of the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.  Then we spent time learning how much they are worth.  We even did a little counting of money.  Please continue to work on this at home over the summer.  They had a great time doing this and cannot wait to show you their ability.  Keep up all the hard work this summer!

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Dates:

May 13^th – Late Start

May 24^th- Return books!

May 24^th – 2:00 Dismissal

May 27^th – No School

May 29^th – Kindergarten Picnic-more info coming soon!

May 30^th – 11:00 Dismissal- Last Day

Tips:

·      Work on counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.

·      Work on telling time to the half hour.

·      Have your child write you a story using at least five sentences.

Reading:

We have been working very hard on our book club books.  We were all just re-tested and trying out our new levels before summer.  These levels are very important to the students!  They love to see how the books change as they move through the levels.  Please keep reading over the summer!   By practicing their reading skills over the summer they will be able to maintain their level.

Math:

We spent the last weeks working on skip counting.  This can be a difficult task.  We really spent most of our time working on counting by 5’s and 2’s.  Please work on this at home some also!  They have been skip counting by 5’s to 100 and skip counting by 2’s to 10.  Ask them to show you what they have learned!

Science/SS

In Science they are discussing living and non-living things.  They are very excited because this will lead into an animal report!  In SS we just finished up our unit on People, Places, and Events.  We are now focusing our last unit on People and the Government.  We are excited to learn about all of this!

Synthesis Super Hero!

We spent the last 2 weeks talking about synthesis!  We learned that it is something you use your schema with and your ideas change as you read.  We talked about your idea can start out small and then get bigger or it can start out big and get smaller!  We had a lot of fun!  We finally got to become a synthesis super hero!  We LOVED it and learned A LOT!!

Savings Day!

We were very lucky to have two ladies from GNB Bank come and talk to us about saving!  They introduced us to the money tree!  Stop into the bank to see what we are saving for!

Bat Presentations!

After all our hard work on bats we were able to present to some 4th grade students!  We had so much fun!  Here are a couple pictures of some of our friends presenting!

We are going Batty!!!!

 We have spent the past 2 weeks working on how to write an informative piece.  We decided to spend time learning about bats!  We talked about what we wondered about them and then spent a lot of time reading books on bats to learn facts.  We kept a list of facts in our room plus many of us has facts in our heads!  :)  We then talked about a topic sentence and ending sentence.  We did a mapping of the facts we wanted to share with others and finally wrote up our informative writing.  Then we were able to share them to the 4th graders!  It was so much fun and we learned a lot!  We hope to share some of that with you when our papers come home about bats!!!

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Reminders

·      April 15^th – Late Start

·      April 29^th – Late Start

·      May 13^th – Late Start

·      May 30^th – Last Day!!

Tips

·      Continue to work on recognizing and counting penny, nickel, and dimes.

·      Start talking about place value the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!

Reading

We have really been working on a variety of comprehension strategies in our classroom.  We are working on Metacognition, Schema, making a picture in your mind, determining importance, questioning, and inferring.  All of these take a lot of time and require your child to think about what they are reading in their book club books.  Please ask them to tell you what each of these mean!

Math

We are continuing to work on our subtraction unit.  This has been a challenge in our room.  We are spending a lot of time reviewing that you count up all that you have first.  This will be your biggest number.  Then you take away and what you have left is the answer.  Please continue to practice at home.

Science/SS/Health

In Science we are continuing to work on their wood unit but have moved to the paper side of it.  The kids love testing out the different papers!  In SS we have been discussing jobs and what kinds of jobs people have.  We have also spent time discussing how to save money.